Signor-Lipps effect

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The principle that due to the incompleteness of the fossil record, the earliest and latest known occurrences of a taxon will almost never represent the ages of the actual earliest and latest organisms belonging to it.

词源

Named after American paleontologists Philip Signor and Jere Lipps, who formally proposed it in 1982.
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